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  • My theory is more based on vibes and multiple continuous layoffs from the majority companies over the last few years.

    The only thing that we can be pretty much certain on is that the banks think twitter is overvalued and think other Investors see it as undervalued.

  • I'm not an econ major but I'm going to give you my theory anyway.

    We've been circling the drain on a major global recession for two years. We've been avoiding it through sheer denial.

    Nobody ever mentions it, but tech stocks were the first to take a beating in 2008. The reason is that they're actually kinda worthless and just a place where billionaires gamble the way trust fund kids do with cryptocurrency. There's just not really that much collateral in digital property. Unlike land, it's value can just disappear overnight if people decide it's uncool.

    When asset managers are about to be called on their bets and have to find money somewhere, the first thing they'll do is sell tech shares to bail out other investments. Houses will always have some value even if you end up having to manage it yourself, whereas any social network risks going the way of MySpace.

    Twitter being in trouble isn't just a sign that twitter is in trouble, but that investors need that money for something safer, and if they're looking for something safer that may mean sheer denial isn't working anymore.

  • A thought that just hit me in the shower.

    I don't feel like lemmy is too small. It quite comfortably fills all my lazing on aggregator time without getting stale. The thing is, like many here, I'm a libertarian leftist politics nerd that's into linux and self hosting.

    That description describes a sizeable chunk of this project's userbase so enough content is being posted enough to saturate the feed.

    If you want the project to expand into other niches, you will have to post into the void about whatever you're into. Seed forums with TV shows or photography or hiking or warhammer or whatever you're into and encourage others to do the same.

    All forums are dead at first but if you want people to come and talk about pottery, you're going to have to make that forum cozy before it gets enough interaction to become self sustaining.

  • I don't know. When I first heard about the horizon scandal I understood what had happened immediately and have since been of the opinion that making financial software that isn't Byzantine fault tolerant should be a criminal offence.

  • You don't have to have anything particularly special. I just have nextcloud via yunohost on a raspberry pi. It's apparently possible to just plug the harddrive in and use it as external storage, but I've mounted it in place of my home folder.